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By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter

A 13-year-old girl was found dead in Busan 11 days after she was kidnapped, police said Saturday.

According to officers, the remains of the girl, identified as Lee Yoo-ri, were discovered inside an abandoned water tank just 100 meters away from her home. Lee was kidnapped at around 7 p.m. on Feb. 24. Her body showed signs of being strangled after being raped several times. Convicted rapist Kim Kil-tae, 33, has been put on the wanted list as a prime suspect.

This case is an eerie remainder of when two girls were snatched in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Christmas Day in 2008 and killed by a 39-year-old man.
Police found Lee's body, while inspecting the rooftop of a house in Deokpo-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan, at 9:20 p.m. Saturday.

The container in which her body was found was a blue water tank measuring 1.25 meters high and 88 centimeters wide. Her body was wrapped in a black plastic bag, they said.

The police officer who first found the body was quoted as saying, ``When I removed the top of the water tank, one of her legs was seen protruding through a plastic wrap.''

She was naked with her arms and legs tied with rope, the officer added.
Residents of a small apartment next to the boiler room where the container was located said the tank had not been in use for a long time so that they had no idea that the body was there.

The discovery came during an intensive search by police in Lee's neighborhood. Police found fingerprints on the wrap and are checking to see whether they belong to the suspect, Kim.

Her body was taken to a Busan hospital for an autopsy.
In an interim report released Sunday, police said it appears she was strangled and had been inside the water tank for several days. It also said the body had traces of repeated rapes.

Except for the 11 years during which he was imprisoned, the suspect Kim has lived in the village, police said. Nearly 2,000 detectives and police officers have met Kim's family, relatives and friends and also thoroughly reviewed footage from scores of CCTVs in the neighborhood. But the investigation has so far made little progress.

Last Wednesday night, police saw a man running away from an abandoned house near the child's home, but failed to catch him.

A reward of 20 million won ($17,500) is being offered to anyone with information on the prime suspect's whereabouts.

The girl went missing from her house, following a brief phone call to her mother at around 7 p.m., Feb. 24. Her glasses and mobile phone were left at her home.

For the first three days after her abduction, police approached the case in a low-key fashion but they made it public since, as proven in previous kidnapping cases, the odds of her survival after the first 48 hours were reduced dramatically.

Residents expressed shock at the news of the discovery. ``The abandoned boiler room where her body was found is an area where people are afraid to go alone even in daylight. Thus, it always had the chance of becoming a scene of a crime,'' one said.



A mother of a middle school girl in the area said that she does not know what to do about her daughter, who sometimes come back home late at night after school.

[email protected] His name is Kim Kiltae and if you click on the link you will see his picture.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/03/117_61963.html

[itaewonguy]

they will find him! and they will get a confession out of him..
give it a couple days. he wont be able to run far.. his friends, family will turn him in. no friend or family will protect him after what he did!
and when the police get him, he will get the death penalty , but probably mean spending the rest of his life in death row. which in my opinion is better than the death penalty. because the death penalty is to easy!


Ps. we need to bring back public executions and before we chop his head off we should all be allowed to throw stones and vegetables and rotten fruit on him..

and then all cheer when he is put into the guillotine !!

[Captain Corea]

he needs to be taken out of society

[CentralCali]

Taking someone out of society does not require lowering society to the level of bloodlust called for above. Imprisonment for life is removing someone from society and, as it turns out, is much cheaper than the current situation involved with death row cases.

For this case, I recall seeing something about the police canvassing the neighborhood a few days after she went missing. What needs to happen here is for the police, along with the rest of the society, to start taking these cases seriously. Amber alerts would be a great start. Also good would be for the judiciary to take these crimes seriously.

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[jvalmer]

Great to see people want to kill a suspect. That's all he is right now a suspect. Despite what he's done in the past, doesn't make him automatically guilty of this crime yet. Once he's found guilty is when you can lynch him.

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[JMO]

Someone should do a study on people's reaction to stories like this.

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[chris_J2]

The punushment should fit the crime, & there should be truth in sentencing. A murder should be a mandatory life sentence, not 11 years with good behaviour. It's a life sentence for the victim's families & friends.

Despite the killing of Bulger, Venables was let out after just a few short years. He's currently going back inside, after committing an undisclosed crime. One of the 2 Malaysians that were charged with killing Victor Chang was deported from Australia last week after serving 18 years.

Often, these criminals go on to reoffend after release. There are many, many other examples. I'm opposed to the death penalty, as there have been cases of the wrong person being executed by the State. My 2 won worth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/8556826.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Chang#Death

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